Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I always write from my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.” — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every good book should take you to a brand new world: enjoy the journey!” — Lynn Hardy Copy Share Image
“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“I want to go somewhere good when I read, not into someone else's crappy life.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
